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    • Exposure to fine particulate matter in the New York City subway system during home-work commute 

      Azad, Shams; Ferrer Cid, Pau; Ghandehari, Masoud (Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2024-08-07)
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      The New York City (NYC) subway system accommodates 5.5 million daily commuters, and the environment within the subway is known to have high concentrations of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution. Naturally, subway air ...
    • Leveraging spatiotemporal correlations with recurrent autoencoders for sensor anomaly detection 

      Allka, Xhensilda; Ferrer Cid, Pau; Barceló Ordinas, José María; García Vidal, Jorge (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024-10-01)
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      The introduction of high- and low-cost Internet of Things (IoT) sensors in air quality monitoring networks, in addition to providing a cost-effective solution for monitoring pollutant levels, also brings with it the challenge ...
    • A case for research with and on community networks 

      Braem, Bart; Blondia, Chris; Freitag, Fèlix; Navarro Moldes, Leandro; Escrich, Pau; Baig Viñas, Roger; Bonicioli, Joseph; Papathanasiou, Stavros; Vilata i Balaguer, Iván; Barz, Christoph; Rogge, Henning; Neumann, Axel; Matson, Malcolm; Tatum, Blaine; Kaplan, Aaron L. (2013-07)
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      Community Networks are large scale, self-organized and decentralized networks, built and operated by citizens for citizens. In this paper, we make a case for research on and with community networks, while explaining the ...
    • Estimating black carbon levels using machine learning models in high-concentration regions 

      Gupta, Pratima; Ferrer Cid, Pau; Barceló Ordinas, José María; García Vidal, Jorge; Soni, Vijay Kumar; Pöhlker, Mira L.; Ahlawat, Ajit; Viana Rodríguez, Mar (Elsevier, 2024-10-20)
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      Black carbon (BC) is emitted into the atmosphere during combustion processes, often in conjunction with emissions such as nitrogen oxides (NOx) and ozone (O3), which are also by-products of combustion. In highly polluted ...
    • A minimalistic distance-vector routing protocol for LoRa mesh networks 

      Pueyo Centelles, Roger; Meseguer Pallarès, Roc; Freitag, Fèlix; Baig Viñas, Roger; Navarro Moldes, Leandro (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024-08-14)
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      LoRa is popular in the Internet of Things (IoT) domain as a Low Power,Wide Area Network (LPWAN) radio technology, providing low-power and long-range communication in the sub-GHz band. Most often, LoRa is used as part of ...
    • eXO: a commons-based community network Internet Service Provider, description and subscribers usage patterns 

      Baig Viñas, Roger; Cerdà Alabern, Llorenç; Vilchez Blanco, Pedro; Foglia Romero, Efraín (2024-12)
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      The advent of Wi-Fi in the 1990s stimulated the creation of Community networks (CNs), a new networking paradigm deployed and maintained by their users. The non-profit and grassroots self-organization of CNs has shown ...
    • A data-driven framework for air quality sensor networks 

      Ferrer Cid, Pau; Paredes Ahumada, Juan Antonio; Allka, Xhensilda; Guerrero Zapata, Manel; Barceló Ordinas, José María; García Vidal, Jorge (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024-01-11)
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      In this article, we present our research vision of a framework for obtaining quality data in air quality monitoring networks using low-cost sensors (LCSs). The use of LCS networks is gaining increasing acceptance in many ...
    • Toward smart community networks 

      Gemmi, Gabriele; Cerdà Alabern, Llorenç; Navarro Moldes, Leandro; Maccari, Leonardo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023-03)
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      The advent of IEEE 802.11 in the late 1990s spurred the development of new network paradigms. In particular, new technology enthusiasts saw the potential of Wi-Fi to bring broadband Internet connections to under-provisioned ...
    • Charging of the ABR service in ATM networks: a numerical example 

      Cerdà Alabern, Llorenç; Casals Torres, Olga M. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 1998-04)
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      The Available Bit Rate service (ABR) is a "best effort" service intended for traffic which imposes no bound on delay or delay variation. The network guarantees a Minimum Cell Rate (MCR) for an ABR source, which is negotiated ...
    • The effects of weight quantization on online federated learning for the IoT: a case study 

      Llisterri Giménez, Nil; Lee, Junkyu; Freitag, Fèlix; Vandierendonck, Hans (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2024-01-04)
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      Many weight quantization approaches were explored to save the communication bandwidth between the clients and the server in federated learning using high-end computing machines. However, there is a lack of weight quantization ...
    • Dataset for anomaly detection in a production wireless mesh community network 

      Cerdà Alabern, Llorenç; Iuhasz, Gabriel (Elsevier, 2023-08)
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      Wireless community networks, WCN, have proliferated around the world. Cheap off-the-shelf WiFi devices have enabled this new network paradigm where users build their own network infrastructure in a do-it-yourself alternative ...
    • Embedded federated learning over a LoRa mesh network 

      Llisterri i Giménez, Nil; Miquel Solé, Joan; Freitag, Fèlix (Elsevier, 2023-06)
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      In on-device training of machine learning models on microcontrollers a neural network is trained on the device. A specific approach for collaborative on-device training is federated learning. In this paper, we propose ...